Summary

For his latest incarnation of Murderworld, Arcade had the brilliant idea to create an element of unpredictability by starting the contestants off with a blank slate: what better way to ensure the super-kids’ pesky allegiances and friendships wouldn't get in the way, than by erasing all their memories?

Of course, he never counted on becoming so engrossed in his contestants’ interpersonal drama that he’d put off the game itself until the ensuing soap opera they created had finished playing out. These kids are an absolute riot! Arcade has high hopes that they'll soon begin to kill one another off, without his interfering at all...now wouldn’t that be something to rub in the Avengers’ faces?

OR:

A rewrite of Avengers Arena, but with a few changes—namely, there is no death match, and all the characters have had their memories erased. Slice-of-life island shenanigans to ensue.

Summary

AU from AvX events, starting with the ending of Avengers Academy and disregarding Avengers Arena.

Instead of being stunned, Juston Seyfert gets badly injured in the battle to protect his Sentinel from the Phoenix-powered Emma Frost during the latter's siege on Avengers Academy. Emma, shaken by her near-mistake and wanting to make amends to the students, reluctantly agrees to compromise on the matter of Juston's Sentinel: instead of destroying the robot completely, she merely dismantles its body, allowing Hank Pym to upload its central processing unit into a new (and weaponless) android shell.

Juston wakes up in the hospital and is stunned to find that his best friend has been transformed from a hulking mecha to a humanoid robot. Compounding this drastic change in his life, he discovers that Avengers Academy is closing its doors permanently to students, leaving him to figure out what comes next. Circumstances seem ideal for Juston and his new-bodied Sentinel to finally return home to Juston's family, but between the weight of past events, and new, unexpected developments in the Sentinel's evolving AI, Juston's immediate future might not be as straightforward as he expected.